necessary memory - Solaris

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I want to use OpenSolaris in a desktop environment. OpenSolaris should
running as basic system. On this system I plan to use up to two virtual
machines simultanisly. For the virtualisation tasks I want to use VBox.
One system ...

necessary memory

Hello,
I want to use OpenSolaris in a desktop environment. OpenSolaris should
running as basic system. On this system I plan to use up to two virtual
machines simultanisly. For the virtualisation tasks I want to use VBox.
One system with linux and the other with windows xp.

Re: necessary memory

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:22:13 +0200, stefan.sprungk wrote:
> I want to use OpenSolaris in a desktop environment. OpenSolaris should
> running as basic system. On this system I plan to use up to two virtual
> machines simultanisly. For the virtualisation tasks I want to use VBox.
> One system with linux and the other with windows xp.

My system has amd64 x2 2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory. Disk size is somewhat
irrelevant since you can easily fit OpenSolaris and 2 guests into a
25 GB partition with room left over.

Your 4 GB memory might be sufficient, but everything depends on the
resource requirements of your guest OSs. If you run some memory hog in
windows which requires 2 GB for itself then 4 GB is going to be inadequate.

Re: necessary memory

stefan.sprungk wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to use OpenSolaris in a desktop environment. OpenSolaris should
> running as basic system. On this system I plan to use up to two virtual
> machines simultanisly. For the virtualisation tasks I want to use VBox.
> One system with linux and the other with windows xp.
>
> Is the following hardware configuration sufficient?
>
> CPU: AMD 64 bit Dual Core 2,6 GHz
> Memory: 4 GByte (What is the minimum requirement?)

That's the same as my desktop and it'll be fine for your purpose. I run
a Solaris 10 and a Win2K VM with 512MB each plus a massive desktop on
the that box.

2GB of RAM was too small, 4GB is ideal.

--
Ian Collins.

Re: necessary memory

Ian Collins schrieb:
>> CPU: AMD 64 bit Dual Core 2,6 GHz
>> Memory: 4 GByte (What is the minimum requirement?)
>
> That's the same as my desktop and it'll be fine for your purpose. I run
> a Solaris 10 and a Win2K VM with 512MB each plus a massive desktop on
> the that box.
>
> 2GB of RAM was too small, 4GB is ideal.
>

Thank you very much for answering. Now I have testet. Together with one
virtual machine (debian etch) the system behaviour is very relaxed.

Each cpu has a medium load of 19 percent. It uses seventy percent of the
memory.

Stefan

Re: necessary memory

stefan.sprungk wrote:
> Ian Collins schrieb:
>
>>> CPU: AMD 64 bit Dual Core 2,6 GHz
>>> Memory: 4 GByte (What is the minimum requirement?)
>>
>> That's the same as my desktop and it'll be fine for your purpose. I run
>> a Solaris 10 and a Win2K VM with 512MB each plus a massive desktop on
>> the that box.
>>
>> 2GB of RAM was too small, 4GB is ideal.
>>
>
> Thank you very much for answering. Now I have testet. Together with one
> virtual machine (debian etch) the system behaviour is very relaxed.
>
> Each cpu has a medium load of 19 percent. It uses seventy percent of the
> memory.